Josh Tate

All right, let's show this pre-historic bitch how we do things downtown! | Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures After the disaster that was Star Wars: The Clone Wars, I think we can finally all agree that George Lucas has abdicated filmmaking in favor of fattening his already bloated wallet. Guillermo Del Toro, on the other hand, shows such a pure love of cinema that I can't imagine him ever following the same path. Let's hope...

Is there anything funnier than animals who can talk? Yes. Many things. | Photo courtesy of DreamWorks Animation Madagascar 2: Escape to Witch Mountain blew through expectations this weekend as it hauled in a huge $63.5M from easily fooled children. Similarly, Role Models topped early estimates by bringing in a cool $19.2M and further validating Universal's strategy of pitting R-rated fare against family films. HSM3 slipped in its third frame, but not too badly ($9.2M/$75.7M)...

At the end of the day, isn't being with someone who makes you laugh the most important thing? | Photo courtesy of MGM I doubt that Soul Men will be very good, but I'll watch it just to see the late Bernie Mac. His untimely death teaches all of us not to do tomorrow (or months from now) what you can do today! I know the perfect girl to take to the ghoulish Repo! The...

Yum! Infanticide! | Photo courtesy of DreamWorks It ain't Pixar, but Kung Fu Panda isn't a half-bad flick. The voice-over talent makes up for the relatively uninspired animation. Get Smart looked like a total bomb coming out of the gate, but Steve Carell did a decent job as Maxwell Smart and is Anne Hathaway ever not fun to watch? Shrek-branded prostitution alert! Before there was The Dark Knight there was the grim and great Batman:...

We're screwing! Yay! | Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios The moronic High School Musical 3 dipped badly in its second week of release but still managed to top the box office this weekend ($15M/$61.7M) as it easily bested funny-ish newcomer Zack and Miri Make a Porno ($10.6M). Saw V also plummeted in frame #2 but still managed to haul in an undeserved $10.1M ($45.8M) from an assortment of psychopaths and degenerates. After that it...

On a scale of 1 to 10, Elizabeth Banks rates a 14 on my personal bang-ability scale. | Photo courtesy of The Weinstein Company I don't know about you but I am steamed--DAMN STEAMED--that Kevin Smith made a movie called Zack and Miri Make a Porno and exempted Elizabeth Banks from what I feel is a compulsory nude scene. Fail, Kevin Smith! Fail! The Haunting of Molly Hartley looks generic, stupid, unscary--you name it. Listless...

Hey kids! Make your parents buy me! | Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Tinker Bell continues Disney's long and successful tradition of re-packaging characters from other films and presenting them cheaply to children. In other words, corporate evil 101. Brendan Fraser is a fantastic actor who constantly makes mediocre to bad movies. Journey to the Center of the Earth is entry #16. Guy Pearce, on the other hand, is a fine actor who constantly...

Erect nipples digitally removed to preserve tween innocence. | Photo courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Disney's decision to move the High School Musical series from television to theaters paid off handsomely this weekend as HSM3 raked in $42.5M to win the weekend box-office race. The vile Saw V continued the success of previous installments as future rapists and sociopaths flooded theaters to the tune of a $30.5M weekend. Last week's champ Max Payne slipped to...

How can you resist a movie written and directed by Charlie Kaufman? | Photo courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics I'm a little concerned about the middling reviews for Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York, but something tells me I'll completely love it. I've Loved You So Long is the other film high on my list this weekend. Kristin Scott Thomas--always good--is supposed to be amazing. How good is Let The Right One In? They are...

Anger management issues continue to vex Hulk. | Photo courtesy of Universal Pictures I'll never understand why Ang Lee's The Hulk was so ruthlessly pilloried. While the end of the script had its issues, the comic-style visual presentation of the movie was brilliant. Ed Norton's re-boot of the franchise wasn't up to the earlier, high standard set by Iron Man, but it was still an excellent adaptation of the fearsome Marvel hero. The Strangers was...